Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:40 PM PDT
By
EU High Representative/ Vice-President Catherine Ashton and
Commissioner Štefan Füle We wish to reaffirm that Georgia is an
important partner for the European Union and we are committed to further
deepening our very dynamic relations. The Association Agreement
negotiations, including the deep and comprehensive free trade part, as
well as the recently opened visa [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:22 PM PDT
“Europe
could demonstrate its willingness to deploy warships into more volatile
areas, to show that certain nations’ illegitimate claims to sovereignty
in the South China Sea will not be recognized by Europeans,” argues
strategic expert James Rogers. James Rogers, an academic specialising in
international relations, strategic studies and European security at the
Baltic Defense College, [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:02 PM PDT
By
Chris Ljungquist On Friday August 24th, an American diplomatic vehicle
carrying two U.S. embassy staffers and a Mexican Navy captain was
ambushed on a remote road outside of Cuernavaca, close to Mexico City.
After the SUV veered off the road, three more vehicles blocked its
escape route, and all four opened fire on the [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:59 PM PDT
By
Ismail Salami Despite the West’s deliberate inattention to and willful
disregard for Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran, there is no denying
the fact that the summit has occasioned extreme chagrin in Washington
and Israel and that dialogue among civilizations in achieving global
peace is still a powerful feasibility. Just a day prior to the [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:57 PM PDT
French
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius, said Monday that any
Israeli strike against Iran would “turn against Israel” and called for
stronger sanctions to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. “I am
absolutely opposed to the idea that Iran would gain nuclear weapons,
but I think if there was an Israeli attack, unfortunately it [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:07 PM PDT
Flight
attendants for Germany’s largest air carrier Lufthansa will hold
another strike on Tuesday in Berlin’s Tegel airport, the country’s
flight attendant union UFO announced in a statement. Over 100
Lufthansa’s flights were cancelled last Friday in an almost eight-hour
long strike of flight attendants in Frankfurt that left up to 26,000
passengers stranded. The [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:04 PM PDT
Lebanon’s
Shiite group Hezbollah has no chemical weapons, but enough missiles to
inflict a considerable damage on Israel in case of an assault, Hezbollah
leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said. “We have no chemical weapons and
we do not need it… But we are capable of hitting painful for Israel
targets. Israelis understand this and take [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:02 PM PDT
Moody’s
ratings agency has downgraded its outlook on the Aaa rating of the
European Union from ‘stable’ to ‘negative,’ linking the decision to a
recent outlook downgrade of the bloc’s major economies. “The negative
outlook on the EU’s long-term ratings reflects the negative outlook on
the Aaa ratings of the member states with large contributions [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 07:57 PM PDT
Address
to ECON Committee By Olli Rehn, Vice-President of the European
Commission and member of the Commission responsible for Economic and
Monetary Affairs and the Euro Mme Chair, Honourable Members, Ladies and
Gentlemen, I want to thank you for having initiated this discussion on
the deepening of the Economic and Monetary Union, a project on [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 07:49 PM PDT
A
draft law to restrict the general public’s access to chemicals that can
be used to make home-made explosives was endorsed by the Civil
Liberties Committee on Monday. Under the text, already agreed by
Parliament and Council representatives, consumers will have to obtain a
licence to buy these products, although some exemptions will be
possible. [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 07:45 PM PDT
St.
John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana By President Barack Obama Well, good
afternoon, everybody. I want to just say, first of all, how proud I am
to be joined by Governor Jindal, Senator Mary Landrieu, Senator David
Vitter, Representative Cedric Richmond. We’ve got Mayor Mitch Landrieu
of New Orleans, St. John the Baptist Parish President [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 07:43 PM PDT
U.S.
President Barack Obama left the campaign trail on the eve of his
party’s nominating convention to visit with Louisiana residents hard-hit
by Hurricane Isaac. Obama toured St. John the Baptist Parish late
Monday, about 50 kilometers outside of New Orleans, and met with
residents, some of whom were forced to flee floodwaters by rushing [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 07:24 PM PDT
By
Shenali Waduge When the majority of Sri Lankan’s however fascinated
they are with Hindi movies remain concerned about the prominence given
to India in Sri Lanka’s post conflict development that concern should
not be ignored. The concern is nothing that India can be upset about.
There is a history behind Sri Lankan’s resentment of [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:59 PM PDT
By
Ernest Corea Give an experienced, popular, and award winning film-star a
captive audience and he will surely steal the show. That’s exactly what
actor-politician Clint Eastwood did at the tightly scripted Republican
Party convention which was recently held in Tampa, Florida. The four day
convention shrank from four to three days, as the planned [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:55 PM PDT
By
Haidar Eid Following assurances and promises by U.S. President George
W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to spread democracy in the
Middle East only to see the destruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, a
third of the Palestinian population (those in the 1967 territories)
voted against the existing Palestinian National Authority government,
led [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:52 PM PDT
By
Giriraj Bhattacharjee On August 15, 2012, Tripura’s Chief Minister
Manik Sarkar warned that a few militant cadres had made a ‘false
surrender’ and had returned to the jungles after taking advantage of the
various benefits allowed by the Government under its generous surrender
schemes. The Chief Minister’s statement came in the midst of reports
[...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:50 PM PDT
By
Veronica Khangchian Independence Day celebrations on August 15, 2012,
in Manipur were marred by a series of four bomb blasts in Imphal East,
Imphal West and Thoubal Districts. Four civilians, including two women,
were injured in the first incident, which took place near the Thoubal
Mela Ground at around 7:30 am. The second blast [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:47 PM PDT
The
launch of Vietnam’s first Kilo-class submarine is another step closer
to Hanoi’s dream of acquiring an undersea capability. Notwithstanding
the media hype, Vietnam’s new Kilos are far from being the game-changer
in the regional naval balance. By Koh Swee Lean Collin This week,
Russia’s Admiralty Shipyard launched the first of six Kilo-class
diesel-electric powered [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:58 PM PDT
By
Johnny Barber Four decades of war. Two million people dead. Trillions
of dollars spent. Money disappearing into the pockets of corrupt
politicians, bureaucrats, policemen and the armed forces. No
accountability. No transparency. No infrastructure. The misery and
poverty of the majority of the people continues unabated, decade after
decade. Children freeze to death in [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:37 AM PDT
By
Anatoly Aseev Turkey’s foreign policy is going through a fiasco. The
leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party even accused the
country’s foreign minister of “narrow-mindedness” on live television. A
scandal erupted after RPP MPs from were prevented from inspecting a
Syrian refugee camp. In 2009, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu,
who at the [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:33 AM PDT
By
Michael Lelyveld A deadly bridge accident in China’s northeast Harbin
city has brought personal tragedy and a grim reminder of problems that
the country will face from its building binge of the past several years.
The collapse of an elevated ramp to the Yangmingtan Bridge on Aug. 24
killed three people and injured five [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:28 AM PDT
By
Vladimir Gladkov A new shooting tragedy has shaken America. A
23-year-old ex-marine opened fire at his co-workers at a Pathmark
supermarket in the early hours on Friday gunning down two people – an
18-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man. The killer, Terence Tyler, then
turned the gun on himself. According to police, he was [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:24 AM PDT
Police
brutality is in the news, thanks to the widespread availability of
amateur video and the omnipresence of security cameras. We’ve seen scene
after scene of police beating the crap out of, and even shooting and
killing unarmed or minimally dangrous students, women, old men and crazy
people, many of them after they have been [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:22 AM PDT
(RFE/RL)
— Lawyers for the three jailed members of the Russian feminist punk
band Pussy Riot have rejected an offer for the women to apologize on
state television for performing a song insulting President Vladimir
Putin inside an Orthodox church. Managers of the nationally broadcast
television program “Man And Law” offered to put the three [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:19 AM PDT
Some
10,000 Syrian refugees fleeing the fighting are blocked for a week at
the Turkish border. The influx could accelerate due to bombardment of
Azaz town, located three kilometers from the border , reported
anti-regime activists. According to a Reuters report, Syrian fighter
aircraft bombarded the town Monday morning. Azaz, which is held by
rebels, [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:11 AM PDT
Total
announced Monday the signature of an agreement with PTTEP for the
acquisition of a 40% interest in the Production Sharing Contract
covering the offshore Block M-11 in Martaban basin. PTTEP (PTT
Exploration and Production Plc.), Thailand’s national company, will
retain the operatorship. The block covers an area of 5,373 km², with a
water depth [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:06 AM PDT
The
Turkish government should take action to address statutory time limits,
witness intimidation, and other obstacles to the prosecution of members
of security forces and public officials for killings, disappearances,
and torture, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Those
responsible for the serious human rights violations committed after the
September 1980 military [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:04 AM PDT
Women
who have not had sex with their husbands will be able to ask for a
divorce under new legislation that came into effect on Monday, the head
of Islamic courts in the Palestinian Authority said. Sheikh Yousef Ideis
announced the implementation of the “bold” new law at a meeting with
supreme court judges and [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:01 AM PDT
India
is making hard attempts to mark its arrival to the apogee of global
power. It has earned worldwide admiration for its identity as the
world’s largest democracy, vibrant economy and also as a country with
world’s largest stock of most competent youth power. However its closest
neighbor in the North – Nepal has surprisingly [...]
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:57 AM PDT
Shell
Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), a subsidiary
of Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), completed on August 31st 2012 the
assignment of its 30% interest in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 40 in the Niger
Delta to Elcrest Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited. Total cash
proceeds for SPDC amount to some US$102million. This divestment [...]
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